Yeah I should have clarified that by saying the 5 biggest player Mgoblog meltdown under Hoke. Not saying its bad becuz obviously things happen for a reason. Green instead of Isaac, Kruger instead of Kozan, Kalis and any of our olineman instead of Diamond and Garnett and Harris instead of Treadwell.
I like every single one of our options there.

I've read on other UM sites that David Shaw told Garnett that Hoke was leaving UM soon and that was helped push Garnett to Stanford. Supposedly, Peppers was initially not high on UM, despite being his childhood favorite, for the same reason: someone (quite possibly Shaw) told him that Hoke was bolting for the NFL.

Add in Shaw's recent douche-baggery on Twitter re: UM's academics not "measuring up" to Stanford's when tweeting to Peppers and Shaw is starting to climb his way up the "Douche-o-meter" scale of CFB coaches.

Knowing what we know now, I think the only ones I'd really still want are Isaac and Garnett. Not that they're guys we need, just that they're guys that I'd still be happy to take. The others have a few...questions...around them.

4. Bryan Mone (Everything about this kid screams superstar to me.. Maybe a bias that I can't locate)

5. Drake Harris

I love Shane Morris as a prospect, but his performance just hasn't lined up w/ his rankings yet... I think Wilton will compete with Shane tooth and nail, too.. I think Pipkins is close at #5, but I think Harris is a definite need for a MNC run...

I think Morris has lived up to his ranking. He was great at The Opening. He only really had one bad performance at the AA game. I guess one bad performance is all it takes to go from a 5 star to a 4 star.

Actually, the most important performances are his actual high school games and in that regard Morris hasn't lived up to the hype. His stats from both his junior and senior seasons (I know he had mono as a senior, of course) were NOT impressive. Morris has mostly been hyped because of his tremendous arm strength...and that is pretty much it.

Except for his recruiting fervor, Morris wouldn't make my Top 10 list. Obviously, I hope he proves me wrong, but I am not expecting great things from Morris on the field. I'm not all that high on Speight, either. It seems like UM is trying to build a team that is NOT QB-centric a la Alabama: great OL, great RB, great defense, game manager QB.

Hoke and Borges coached Ryan Lindley at SDSU, who was very similar to Morris in arm strength, also had a gunslinger mentality and built similarly in stature. He turned into a good college QB and was drafted into the NFL. Don't give up on Morris yet until he gets some coaching. For all we know, his coaches or offensive system in high school may not have done him any favors.

I think the OP was asking to grade players based on their performance as high school players and t heir recruiting hype/ranking/profile, not how they grade as college players. I say that because there were a lot of posts early on giving the OP grief about some of these kids not even being on campus yet.

For me I think it would be hard to put anyone ahead of Peppers given that he is probably the highest ranked kid UM has ever got, not just in the Hoke era, but any era.I mean, I know we all want Shane Morris to be a stud QB, but he wasn't even top two at his position, let alone top two overall in the country. For me the list would be:

1) Peppers

2) Green

3) Thomas

4) Kalis

5) Harris

Of course if he picks up Hand than he would take over top spot and everyone would slide down a spot. I don't see any other recruit that we are currently in could position with that could change that list..there are a few long shots, but none that are being predicted to come our way.

in Justin Fargas, arguably the no. 1 rated qb in Henson - always mentioned in top 5 - and for the first time since they've been keeping track we had 2 of the top 15 wrs in DT and AA. That has happened since, but this was the first. No, DT was not rated no. 1. ^Remember please I cannot get para breaks on this page so the ^ takes its place......sorry. I think the first three are ez to name in Green, Peppers and Kalis. I think Charlton will blow up. His lower body is just about identical to Kalis's and that is saying a lot. No one will push these two kids around. I think I will fence set on no. 5 and say one of the lber hauls in the last two classes will fill in the top five. ^Inasmuch as these things never turn out as predicted, i.e., Fargas, Grady, certainly an answer to a future trivia question such as, "Name the only 5* player-probably in any sport, in any league whose brother put up better stats in same sport as a walk-on, although he was recruited himself in another sport?" If not, it should be. ^ I think, although probably not as much fun because it gives us time to do some of our best guess work is naming the players who outplayed their status coming in. Top three on my list in the very recent past would have to be Hart, although given a 4th star at cb the moment he pledged to M, but recruited as a 3* runner, Jake Long and, of course, our most exciting offensive player ever, Denard Robinson. I'm guessing even those who can remember our first Heisman winner would have to give him the nod, although Tom definitely did more than DR as punter, passer, runner, receiver, etc. Then again, oh let's leave it there.....................

In terms of on-field performance, probably Ross or Funchess. Norfleet maybe if they let him loose. Also, I'm higher on Pipkins than some people are just because big guys like that take time to develop and he hasnt embarrassed himself out there. As for the new guys, Morris, Peppers and Green are the biggest upside guys I see right now, with Harris one notch below along with Cole, who really feels like on of those dominant guards who you don't realize has been blowing guys off the line until you look at the rushing numbers.

his respective team to the top. His recruiting here, nonetheless, borders on spectacular. I have been watching M fb since Bo's first year, and I can't recall a consecutive three year period to match this. * Kalis is great and belongs among the top five. However, the fact that he had committed to OSU when many of them stayed makes his decision to move even more dramatic. I think, although he's rathed lower Marshall's commitment was significant as well. He was pretty much penciled in as going to EL by virtually all the recruiting gurus and one visit later, he pulls the plug. I'll stick with my five, and it didn't include Lawrence, but recruits of this nature are extremely significant because of the message it sends to those that thought they had the kids locked up. Surround the lesser recruited players with all these h.s. AAs and suddenly they have something to prove and many of them do. He's got a good system and once he got to a great school it didn't take long to see how it works.